Word is that Danny Carey will be appearing on the Late Night with Seth Meyers show next week:

I must be living under a rock because it was just brought to my attention that DANNY will be the guest drummer on the LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS SHOW starting on the WEEK of Monday, SEPTEMBER 26. Now that I mention it, does anyone have a house truck for sale?

It’s really funny because today I hopped on Facebook and everybody has a fucking story about how they know a guy that’s a reliable source that says TOOL is in the mastering phase of the double album that’s being released “soon” and it will be their last album, their doing a farewell tour and yatta yatta yatta….

All I can do is fucking chuckle and cry and try not to shit myself…. “ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?” is the only response I have for these people….

I know a guy that knows a guy that’s the second cousin of the bass tech…. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

All this week drummer Danny Carey is sitting in on the show, and during his debut performance last night, when he was being introduced by Seth Meyers, Meyers mentioned a new album from the band would be out sometime very soon. That could mean anything! All kidding aside, maybe we’ll get the album by next year?

I think we can all agree that “soon” is such a broad term it really has no meaning. I expect Danny mentioned to Seth they are working on the album, and Seth just extrapolated this to being soon.

How soon is “soon”? If it’s not until 2017, then that shouldn’t really surprise anyone. If it’s this year, as some are trying to assert on Reddit (that it’s in mastering, and that’s the reason Danny is in NYC despite Maine being 7 hours away).

Haha… New newsletter is actually gold. I normally hate Blair’s speels, but this one is so tongue in cheek making fun of us “c’mon guys, turn that frown upside down… positive thinking mmmmkay” … intentionally condescending just to wind up the ones who will be wound up. Love it.

And that Meshuggah article has this nice line:
“It was the demos, but it’s the best I’ve heard of Tool can I say.”

Synthesising their music must obviously take time, as per Adam Jones’ comments during theVIP ‘meet & greet’ with fans, so hopefully the end result will be worth the wait.

I also think they privately have high expectations of themselves throughout this process. Taking the long view, imagine trying to evolve as a band when your last three albums have been Aenima, Lateralus and 10,000 Days. That’s hard to beat so any addition to their discography from their perspective has to be of their highest quality.